This caterpillar can cause excruciating pain when touched. But unlike most venomous arthropods, it uses its venom purely for self-defence.
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If species already modify their genes, why shouldn’t we?
Adding a single wheat gene helps the American chestnut withstand a fungal pathogen that nearly wiped these hardwood trees out of the eastern forests they once dominated.
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Professor in the Department of Environmental and Forest Biology, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland
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Natural Environment Research Council Independent Research Fellow, University of Sheffield